A knife-point rapist faces 165 years in prison after a jury convicted him yesterday of waging a crack-fueled rampage of burglary and sexual degradation in an East Village apartment building.

Three times in the spring of 2006, sex fiend John Hamlett – already a convicted rapist, burglar and crack dealer – returned to the building.

On the first visit, he pushed into a woman’s apartment and committed sex acts on her. Thirteen days later, he climbed through the fire-escape window of another woman and took a checkbook from the empty apartment.

Four days later, he pushed his way into the second victim’s apartment after claiming he had “found” the checkbook.

The jurors were repulsed when he abruptly chose to act as his own lawyer and asked the second victim such grotesque questions as, “I forced you to have oral sex, right?”

After quickly convicting him of enough sex and robbery offenses to put him away for 165 years, three female jurors said that cross examination had given them nightmares.

“It made my skin crawl,” said one.

Hamlett was smart enough to clean up his DNA and fingerprints. But he was dumb enough to try to use his victims’ bank cards in front of surveillance cameras.